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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Sports facilities in Seven more States and two Union Territories selected for upgradationto Khelo India State Centre of Excellence
The Sports Ministry has upgraded centres from a total of nine States and Union Territories to the Khelo India State Centre of Excellence  under the Khelo India scheme. The States and UTs include Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Tripura and Jammu & Kashmir.
Speaking about the decision, Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri. KirenRijiju said, "The government is taking the two-pronged approach of developing grassroot level infrastructure on the one hand and creating facilities for sporting excellence on the other. The KISCEs will be world-class facilities where the best sporting talent from all over the country will be trained to further India's Olympic dreams."
These centres have made the cut based on their past performances, quality of infrastructure, management & sports culture in the State, etc. Earlier this year, the Ministry had identified a total of 14 centres to be upgraded to KISCEs. The overall number now stands at 24 KISCEs from 23 States / UTs. The assistance to these centres will be provided in the form of bridging the gaps in sports equipment, high performance managers, coaches, sports scientists, technical support, etc.
The sports facilities were selected by each State and Union Territory, who was asked to identify the best sports infrastructure available with them or their agencies or any eligible agencies that could be developed into world-class sporting facilities.
The latest KISCEs include:
Andhra Pradesh – Dr. YSR Sports School, YSR District, Kadapa
Chandigarh – Hockey Stadium, Sector – 42
Chhattisgarh - Rajya Khel Prashikshan Kendra, Bilaspur
Goa – SAG Sports Complex, Campal, Panaji
Haryana –Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai, Sonipat
Himachal Pradesh – Indoor Stadium Luhnu Sports Complex, Bilaspur
Puducherry – Rajiv Gandhi School of Sports, Uppallam
Tripura - Dasarath Dev State Sports Complex, Badharghat, Agartala
Jammu & Kashmir –
i) M.A. Stadium,FencingAcademy,Jammu
ii) J & K Sports Council water Sports Academy, Srinagar
States/ UTs currently with KISCEs:
States - Assam, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Telengana, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura
UTs - Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Puducherry, Jammu & Kashmir
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Health Services Under ESIC
The Employees’ State Insurance  Corporation has decided to expand coverage of ESI Scheme and thereby health services under medical benefit to all the districts of the country in a phased manner. Further, opening new dispensaries and hospitals to provide services to ESI beneficiaries is an on-going process.
Apart from beneficiaries of ESI schemes, health services of under-utilized ESIC hospitals have been made available to non-Insured Person .
The ESIC facilities are being given to the employees working in the factories and establishments covered under the ESI Act, 1948 and drawing wage upto Rs.21000/- per month . The following steps have been taken by the ESIC for bringing maximum number of employees under ESIC coverage :-
- The ESI Scheme has been fully extended to 389 districts where the scheme was partially available at different centres. Apart from that the scheme has also been extended to 186 districts where it is available in district headquarters areas and prominent industrial centres. As a result, the implementation of ESI Scheme has expanded from 393 districts in 2015-16 to 575 districts at present.
- Survey drive is conducted from time to time for coverage of factories and establishments not covered under the ESI Act.
- On receipt of any complaint from the workers, Trade Unions etc. regarding non-coverage of factories and establishments or employees, action is taken as per the provisions of the ESI Act, 1948 and the Rules & Regulations framed there under.
This information was given by Minister of State  for Labour & Employment Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Ministry of Labour and Employment initiates matching of the eShram beneficiaries’ data with the Ration Card ) data
This initiative to ensure that Ration Card benefits under NFSA is made available to all eligible workers registered on eShram portal
The eShram portal was launched on 26th August 2021 by the Ministry of Labour & Employment to create a National Database of the unorganised/migrant workers and to provide them with a Universal Account Number . The portal has received unprecedented response from the unorganised/migrant workers of the country and as on 24th February 2023, over 28.60 crore workers have registered on the eShram portal.
One of the objective of the eShram portal is to extend the benefits of social security and welfare schemes to unorganised workers especially migrant workers, and to identify workers who are deprived of the various benefits of the welfare schemes of the Central and/or State Government due to lack of awareness or otherwise. With this objective, Ministry of Labour & Employment initiated matching of the eShram beneficiaries’ data with the Ration Card ) data available with the Department of Food and Public Distribution. The complete data set of Ration card was made available by the DFPD to the Ministry of Labour & Employment. On matching of the two data sets, it has been observed that out of total 28.60 crore eShram registrants, about 20.63 crore eShram registrants are registered in NFSA database of DFPD and about 7.96 core eShram registrants are yet to get registered on NFSA data.
Ministry of Labour and Employment is conveying the details of all eShram registered unorganised/migrant workers who are not yet registered on NFSA to DFPD so that these eShram registrants may also be included under database of DFPD as per their eligibility. This initiative will ensure that Ration Card benefits under NFSA is made available to all eligible workers registered on eShram.
The eShram portal is already integrated with National Career Service  portal and more than 10 lakh eShram registrants have registered on NCS to get benefits of domestic as well as international jobs available on NCS portal. Further, eShram portal is also integrated with PMSYM portal to facilitate eShram registrants getting benefit of pension scheme of Ministry of Labour & Employment.
Ministry of Labour & Employment is constantly making efforts to work towards the welfare of entire workforce under both organized and unorganized sectors. The above initiative will definitely be beneficial to a large section of unorganized workers and their families.
Ministry of Science & Technology
Intelligence system and health monitoring solution for EVs can ensure their efficient performance
A new complete vehicle intelligence system and health monitoring solution for electric vehicles  can ensure safe and high EV performance, which will occupy a major part of the next-generation transportation system. The system can help in estimating the accurate state of health and state of charge of the battery pack, help fleet operators in their control and facilitate seamless communication.
The unavailability of such vehicle intelligent modules for the different components of EVs serves as a roadblock in their efficiency.
Delhi-based Vecmocon Technologies developed the vehicle intelligence system with critical battery data collection and monitoring, such as cell voltages, temperature, and the current health of the battery. Vecmocon, incubated at FITT-IIT Delhi, with seed support from the Department of Science and Technology, also provides solutions for intelligent vehicles, including keyless entry, preventive and predictive maintenance, user-adaptive algorithms, remote diagnostics, fleet management, and so on.
It can cater to the entire ecosystem of EVs, such as motor power controllers, battery management systems, vehicle intelligence modules, cloud connectivity, etc., with specialized components for high-performance vehicles.
The patented technology at Technology Readiness Level 9 costs around 20- 22k for the entire kit  and is being used by more than 15 EV Manufacturers as well as Original Equipment Manufacturers .
“While others are focused on 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers as a product in the Market, we at Vecmocon are building the ecosystem for electric vehicles to happen in India at a very faster pace. We design and develop core components for electric vehicles like Battery Management System, Motor Controller, Vehicle Intelligence Module, Chargers, and the whole of the cloud architecture for Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence,” said Peeyush Asati, one of the founders of the company.
Adarshkumar Balaraman, the other founder, acknowledged DST's support during the company's initial stages.
Vecmocon provides battery packs with all thermal and structural considerations, battery management systems, and Machine Learning  algorithms for battery management design of computationally in-expensive system-local ML algorithms, which run on Rs. 100 micro-controller. It has generated revenue of Rs 5 crore so far.
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Ministry of Finance
Public Debt Management report for the quarter of January-March 2022
Since Apr-June  2010-11, Public Debt Management Cell , Budget Division, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, has been bringing out a quarterly report on debt management on a regular basis. The current report pertains to the quarter January-March .
During Q4 of FY22, the Central Government raised an amount through dated securities worth ₹1,37,025 crore as against ₹3,20,349 crore in Q4 of FY21, while repayments were at ₹49721.87 crore. The weighted average yield of primary issuances hardened to 6.66 per cent in Q4 FY22 from 6.33 per cent in Q3 of FY22. The weighted average maturity of new issuances of dated securities was higher at 17.56 years in Q4 of FY22 as compared to 16.88 years in Q3 of FY22. During January- March 2022, the Central Government did not raise any amount through the Cash Management Bills. The Reserve Bank did not conduct Open Market operations for government securities during the quarter. The net daily average liquidity absorption by RBI under Liquidity Adjustment Facility  including Marginal Standing Facility and Special Liquidity Facility was at ₹6,44,100.99 crore during the quarter.
Total liabilities  of the Government, as per provisional data, increased to ₹1,33,22,727.03 crore at end-March 2022 from ₹1,28,41,996 crore at end-December 2021. This represented a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.74 per cent in Q4 FY22. Public debt accounted for 92.28 per cent of total outstanding liabilities at end-March 2022 up from 91.60 per cent at end-December 2021. Nearly 29.31 per cent of the outstanding dated securities had a residual maturity of less than 5 years.
The yields on Government securities hardened in the secondary market due to increase in supply of G-secs during the quarter like in first, second and third quarter of FY22. However, the yields were supported by decision of MPC to keep the Policy repo rate unchanged at 4 percent, to continue with accommodative stance during the Q4 FY22.
In secondary market, trading activities were concentrated in 7-10 year maturity bucket during the quarter mainly because of more trading observed in 10 year benchmark security. Foreign banks emerged as dominant trading segment in secondary market during the quarter. On a net basis, foreign banks, public sector banks and primary dealers were net sellers while co-operative banks, FIs, insurance companies, mutual funds, private sector banks and ‘Others’ were net buyers. The ownership pattern of Central Government securities indicates that share of commercial banks stood at 37.75 per cent at end-March 2022 as against 35.40 per cent at end-December 2021.
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Ministry of Finance
Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman says Government is working arduously for smooth co-ordination between States, hospitals and suppliers of oxygen and vaccines to give relief to people in fight against COVID-19 pandemic
Provision of oxygen, vaccines and their logistics to people affected by coronavirus is being ensured, given the recent surge in cases of COVID-19 pandemic across the country. This was stated by Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a virtual session organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today.
Speaking at the event, Smt. Sitharaman mentioned that the Government is reviewing and monitoring the situation regularly and working arduously for a better co-ordination between States, hospitals and suppliers of oxygen and vaccines to match the demand and supply in the country.
The Finance Minister stated that the Prime Minister himself is monitoring the situation with eminent doctors and vaccine manufacturers. The import of vaccines, certified by international bodies has been allowed in India; support is being extended to manufacturers by the Government by way of giving advances and vaccination drive against coronavirus has been allowed for people aged 18 years and above from 1st May 2021, She added.
Smt. Sitharaman said a slew of announcements have been made in regard to the drug Remdesivir and custom duty has been waived and quantity for export has been held back for use in country considering the requirement of Remdesivir injection.
These announcements are expected to increase the availability of the injection, the Finance Minister said.
For oxygen supply, the government is identifying idle manufacturing capacities to match the demand and supply in the country, Smt. Sitharaman said.
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman said that the way forward to tackle the current situation is through micro containment zone so that life and livelihood can be protected.
Sh. Sanjay Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that the Central Government had last year acted swiftly and extended the timelines for compliances under various corporate laws and the same steps and support measures are required this year also.
The Union Finance Minister assured that the valuable inputs received from PHD chambers of Commerce and Industry will be considered for the industrial and economic growth of the country.
Former presidents, senior managing committee members and members from industry also participated in the virtual interactive session with the Union Finance Minister
Ministry of Education
Union Education Minister inaugurates the New Delhi World Book Fair 2021 – Virtual Edition
Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ inaugurated the New Delhi World Book Fair 2021 – Virtual Edition today.
Addressing on the occasion, the Minister appreciated that ‘National Education Policy-2020’ is the theme of New Delhi World Book Fair 2021. Speaking on NEP, the Minister said, it has emerged as world’s biggest reform, which will develop India not only as the Knowledge hub but will also help in making learners ideal and global citizens. Recalling Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s quote, ‘the one who reads, leads the nation’, the Minister said that the one who has the capability to read, write and think, can lead in any field.
Shri Pokhriyal congratulated National Book Trust and its entire team for holding the Virtual Edition of Book Fair. He also commended NBT efforts towards providing quality content to the nation and for working towards promoting regional Indian languages.
Minister also launched 17 bilingual titles published by NBT under the implementation policy of the NEP-2020. These titles have been published in Bilingual format under the Bilingual Editions series for Children as per the guidelines of the NEP 2020 with the objective to create supplementary reading materials for children to help them adapt suitably to the multilingual fabric of the country.
Prof. Govind Prasad Sharma, in his address said that India is the world's third largest publisher of books and it is thus our prerogative that through these books we produce such content that takes forward our rich culture and traditions. He further said that the theme for this year’s NDWBF 2021 is the National Education Policy to discuss the dynamics of its implementation through publishing for various age-groups.
Shri Yuvraj Malik Director, NBT in his address said that the theme of NDWBF-2021 as the National Education Policy-2020 is dedicated to the symbiosis of book reading culture with the vision of the new education policy. He further said that through NDWBF-2021, NBT will host a multitude of authors, writers and educationists, over 20+ webinars, seminars and conclaves to discuss the new education policy. He also said that as the Knowledge Partner of the nation, it is NBT’s responsibility to take steps for knowledge dissemination along with knowledge creation.
The New Delhi World Book Fair 2021-Virtual Edition  will be accessible 24x7 on the virtual platform www.nbtindia.gov.in/ndwbf21
Prime Minister's Office
21st Meeting of SCO Council of Heads of State in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The 21st Meeting of SCO Council of Heads of State will be held on 17th September 2021 in Dushanbe in a hybrid format. The meeting will be chaired by the President of Tajikistan H.E. Emomali Rahmon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will lead the Indian delegation and address the plenary session of the Summit via video-link. At Dushanbe, India will be represented by External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar.
The SCO Summit will be attended by the leaders of the SCO Member States, Observer States, Secretary General of the SCO, Executive Director of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure , President of Turkmenistan and other invited guests.
This is the first SCO Summit being held in a hybrid format and the fourth Summit that India will participate as a full-fledged member of SCO. This Summit assumes significance as the organization is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. At the Summit, the leaders are expected to review the organization’s activities over the past two decades and discuss the state and prospects of future cooperation. Topical issues of regional and international importance are also expected to be discussed.
Ministry of Development of North-East Region
Constitution Day Celebration in MDoNER
On the occasion of Constitution Day, all the officers and staff of Ministry of DoNER participated in the Preamble reading by the Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram NathKovind.
A webinar on the theme “Constitutional Safeguards with regard to Scheduled Tribes” was also organized on the occasion. Shri RavindraGarimella, Joint Secretary ,Lok Sabha Secretariatwas the Lead Speaker. All the officers from MDoNER and its Organization alsoparticipated in the Webinar. During the discussion Shri K. Moses Chalai, Secretary, NEC said that MDoNER is working towards focused development of all the deprived areas; deprived/neglected sections of society and emerging priority sectors in the North Eastern States.
Standees/posters/Infographics  on the fundamentals of Indian Constitution have also beendisplayed prominently in the premises of the MDoNER.
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PRESIDENT CONFERS SHAURYA CHAKRA ON GROUP CAPTAIN PERMINDER ANTIL  FLYING 
Group Captain Perminder Antil  Flying  is the Commanding Officer of a Su-30 MKI Squadron since January 2020.
On 21 September 2020, during a sortie from the front cockpit of a Su-30 aircraft, he experienced unprecedented and vicious oscillations in the longitudinal and lateral planes with gravitational forces rapidly varying from +9G to -1.5G, coupled with the aircraft uncontrollably banking to the left and other control failure indications. Overcoming ‘black-out’ conditions encountered due to the extremely high ‘G’ conditions, he manually dampened the aircraft oscillations and also checked the safety of his weapon system operator. While controlling the aircraft, he turned away from populated area to ensure no loss of civilian life or property in case of a probable ejection. As he initiated a priority recovery, the aircraft once again encountered vicious oscillations, with the control of the aircraft requiring large amount of pressures on the control column by the pilot. The officer applied his superior systems knowledge and opted for some unconventional recovery actions. As a result of his judgement and skilful handling, the oscillations reduced and the aircraft was recovered safely. During these life-threatening circumstances, the pilot maintained his composure, displayed exemplary courage and maintained his presence of mind. His superior piloting skills ensured safety of a national asset worth hundreds of crores of Rupees and precluded possible damage to life and property on ground in case of an ejection.
For this act of exceptional gallantry, exemplary standards of professionalism and contribution to aerospace safety, Group Captain Perminder Antil has been conferred with the Shaurya Chakra.
Ministry of Science & Technology
Integrated Solar Dryer and Pyrolysis pilot plant will help smart cities transform urban organic waste into biochar & energy
A Solar Dryer and Pyrolysis pilot plant at Chennai will soon offer an innovative approach for smart cities to transform urban organic waste into biochar and energy.
Foundation stone of the Integrated Solar Dryer and Pyrolysis pilot was laid by Dr. K J Sreeram, Director, CSIR- Central Leather Research Institute , Chennai
The foundation stone of the Integrated Solar Dryer and Pyrolysis pilot was laid by Dr. K J Sreeram, Director, CSIR- Central Leather Research Institute , Chennai on the occasion of 74th foundation day of CLRI on 23rd April 2021.
The pilot is part of the Indo-German project ‘Pyrasol’ launched to transform urban organic waste into biochar and energy in smart cities. It was awarded to CSIR-CLRI by the Indo-German Science & Technology Centre. The project will ultimately lead to technology development for the joint processing of Fibrous Organic Waste  and Sewage Sludge  of Indian smart cities into hygienic and highly valuable biochar associated with energy recovery, carbon sequestration and environmental improvement.
Indo-German Science & Technology Centre  was established by the Department of Science & Technology , Govt. of India & Federal Ministry of Education and Research , Govt. of Germany to facilitate Indo-German R&D networking with emphasis on industry participation, applied research and technology development.
IGSTC through its flagship program ‘2+2 Projects’, catalyses innovation centric R&D projects by synergising the strength of research and academic institutions and public/private industries from India and Germany.
CSIR-CLRI, Chennai teams at the inauguration event
Under this program, the project titled ‘Pyrasol: Smart Cities integrated energy supply, carbon sequestration and urban organic waste treatment through combined solar sludge drying and pyrolysis’ was awarded by IGSTC to CSIR-CLRI, Chennai; Ramky Enviro Engineers, Chennai; Leibniz Universität, Hannover and BiomaconGmbH, Rehburg.
The project focuses on managing and organising collection, treatment, and disposal systems of urban wastes in Indian Smart Cities as well as in other urban centres with an integrated and interactive approach. Through this Pyrasol project, simple and robust processing technologies for urban organic waste will be combined in a synergetic manner and further developed to improve sanitation and welfare, supply regenerative energy, convert waste into products and reduce the carbon footprint of smart cities by an innovative organic waste drying system using the solar natural chimney effect followed by a high efficient single-chamber pyrolysis.